Although Public Service Enterprise reported profit of 47 cents a year ago, the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 39 cents.
Without mandated coverage, it would be impossible for insurance companies to provide coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and continue to stay in business as a profit making enterprise, unless the price of insurance premiums paid by those who are healthy become so expensive that it is virtually unaffordable by 99% of the nation.
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The "million-dollar" measure refers to either total revenue generated or the value of the enterprise built (as opposed to the size of the total profit pile).
"We're not a portfolio company that takes 5% of an enterprise, then after a period of gestation, sells out at a profit, " says Pangilinan.
The higher the earnings yield defined as pretax operating profit divided by enterprise value, or the sum of stock and debt the more attractive the stock is from a valuation standpoint.
That self-interest does, of course, accord with the common, popular, understanding of the purpose of private enterprise, which is to maximise profit at all costs.
Today under the ownership of Starbucks, Ethos, a for-profit enterprise, sells bottled water, while supporting water, sanitation and hygiene education programs in the developing world.
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"The accused perpetrators of these acts were not common criminals attempting to profit from a criminal enterprise, but terrorists trying to injure, maim, and kill innocent Americans, " senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, and congressman Peter King, said in a statement.
But Ms Teather said the government would support it in setting up as an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise "to carry on its outstanding work driving up the quality of school meals".
Microsoft has traditionally enjoyed very high operating profit margins on its enterprise software products like the Office suite as the incremental costs of producing one more copy of the software are very low.
To this end, in 2007 she co-founded together with Dr Georges Whitesides of Harvard University, the "Diagnostics for All" (DFA) non-profit enterprise.
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It also far exceeds its competitors in a number of different ways: market capitalization, enterprise value, revenue, gross margin, and profit margin.
As a non-profit social enterprise staffing 20 centers across India and servicing 65, 000 patients each year, 20, 000 of whom require new feet and leg replacements while the remaining 45, 000 require crutches, wheelchairs, hand-peddled tricycles and other aids, Jaipur Foot is not only a global leader in prosthetic science, production and manufacturing, but also surgical in its fiscal discipline.
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